Tyson Fury won't fight in December against Usyk

I don’t understand this rhetoric, frankly. It’s so wrong on so many levels.

First of all, Usyk already has a fight date, an opponent, and a venue. We know exactly what he is up to, what he will do next. No “massive announcements” that result in nothing, no funny business about challenging MMA fighters.

Second of all, if you followed the news, you are perfectly aware that Fury wasted around a whole year of Usyk’s career since Usyk first beat Joshua. Since the WBC is corrupt as hell, they allow Fury to be inactive, to “retire” while holding on to the belt etc. Usyk was desperate to make the undisputed fight - twice. That’s the whole reason he stepped up to HW. It’s always been his goal. He tried to make the undisputed fight straight after the first Joshua fight. Fury pulled out, demanding a tune up against Whyte. But it was after months and months of negotiations. That’s why the Usyk-Joshua rematch happened a month later. Originally, it should have happened in July 2022. Fury has been leading everyone down the garden path with the barren undisputed negotiations for months - twice in the past one and a half years or so.

Third of all, please don’t tell me you count the Chisora sparring session as a legit fight by pointing to it how it was more recent than Usyk’s title defence against Joshua. Fury is been basically inactive since last April - and even then he fought a shell-of-his-former-self, punch-resistance-diminished, possibly-neurologically-damaged-by-Povetkin Whyte. The Chisora bout was an outrage, it was so absurd and ridiculous that even Fury fans couldn’t believe it at first when it was announced. Fury didn’t even train for it properly (Andy Lee talked about this), it was such a non-event.

You say you are not a Fury fan. It makes it really baffling then why you would push this Fury fan narrative about Usyk being the inactive one - when it’s Fury who messes around with fight negotiations for months without anything to show for it, who retires while holding his belt hostage, who “defends” his title against 40-year-old, 12-losses has beens (name me any other HW champion ever who voluntarily defended their belt against someone with 12 losses) etc.

You always know what Usyk is doing, you do know how the last eighteen months of his career was affected by fighting for his country and being messed about by Fury. On the other hand, even Arum and Warren don’t know most of the time what Fury is up to - they’re words, not mine. Yet, Usyk is the inactive one? Ridiculous, especially if you claim that you don’t even like Fury.

 

It’s a strange thing they do in Poland. When Babic fought Rozanski there, that fight also wasn’t announced officially until what, two weeks before the actual fight? I’m not sure why this is but it’s like that in Poland. In any case, I don’t know about any announcements being made next week, and I don’t want to make guesses about it either.

But even without this announcement or fighting Dubois for that matter, it’s not even close between Usyk and Fury who wants the undisputed more, who is more transparent about their plans etc. That’s why it annoys me when people talk about Usyk’s inactivity - he was hell-bent in making the undisputed fight, making concessions after concessions in order to amaze the fight. Everyone who followed the news is aware how Usyk was denied to fight and how as a result it’s unfounded to say he is inactive. I really only heard this “argument” from provocative Fury fans. I appreciate you are not one of them - that’s why it makes it even more baffling why you would argue this issue.

 

I'd rather Usyk *not* take that fight and instead go straight to Wilder in September. I hate that these guys have put all their eggs in the Saudi basket for the end of the year; it has killed the division this year. And with Fury, you never know if he's serious about anything. Usyk's 2023 could be Dubois and that's it - terrible for an aging fighter who actually could make a lot of money against the right opponent.

 

Let me rephrase it: between Usyk’s well documented patriotism/activities in Ukraine due to the situation there and his well-documented attempts and efforts to make the Fury fight happen, it annoys me when he is accused of inactivity.

It’s absolutely not his doing he hasn’t been able to fought more since 2021 or that his last fight was in last August.

It’s all the more annoying since Usyk has already talked about not wanting to fight for long because he doesn’t want to miss out on more of spending time with his family. Fighting to become undisputed in the heavies is the only thing that keeps him around. Knowing this, do you think he wants to be inactive? So it’s fine to discuss why he isn’t able to fight more. But it’s annoying when it’s suggested how inactive he is - when it’s very clear how and what he has been trying to do to achieve fighting Fury.

 

The point is that Usyk should not be chasing Fury. It's on him at this point for being inactive and/or taking **** fights. He tried to get the undisputed and Fury did not cooperate, so Usyk should cash in on his current stature and get paid. If undisputed is all he cares about, then just retire.

 

The entire HW division is chasing Saudi money

But Fury is the only one who gets stick

Funny ain't it

When Fury secures £1b. Whether that's December. January 2024 or even February I want a formal apology.

Saudi were clear early this year that they wouldn't host anything till December AT THE EARLIEST.